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Saturday, 13 December 2025
13 facts about tears
13 facts about tears
Multipurpose liquid
Associated with emotions, tears are a product of lacrimal glands, found in the eyes of most terrestrial vertebrates. Although their primary function i ...

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Anorexia Nervosa
The earliest medical descriptions of the disease are attributed to English physician Richard Morton in 1689.
However, it was not until the late 19th century that mental anorexia nervosa was widely accepted by ...
Cosmos
Light from the surface of the Sun to Earth travels about 8 minutes and 10 seconds.
This means that when we look at the Sun in the sky, we see it where it was more than 8 minutes ago.
Large Magellanic Cloud
The next description of the galaxy appeared in Amerigo Vespucci's writings on his third expedition. He observed the object in the years 1503 - 1504.
Mushrooms
Fungi are a separate kingdom, more closely related to animals than to plants.
This is established on the basis of phyologenesis (origin), biochemistry and anatomy. Fungi are reco ...
Mushrooms
Fungi have developed a high degree of metabolic versatility, which allows them to use a variety of organic substances for growth.
In some species, the pigment melanin may play a role in extracting energy from ionizing radiation such as gamma radiation.
Fungi
Fungi, next to animals (Animalia) and plants (Plantae), form a separate, large kingdom of eukaryotic living organisms.
They occur in all climatic zones, mainly on land, but also in water, both salty and fresh.The actual ...
Cosmos
Jupiter is the largest planet in the Solar System.
This gas giant is made up of 90 percent hydrogen and about 10 helium. The diameter of Jupiter is 139 ...
Moon
The average time between new moons is 29 days, 12 hours, 44 minutes and 3 seconds. We call this period the synodic month.
It is longer than the sidereal month because in the process of illuminating the moon's disk, we must take into account the movement of the Moon itself, as well as the Earth and the Sun.
Ganymede
The moon's mantle is surrounded by layers of ice and salty liquid water.
These layers alternate. The surface of the moon consists of hard ice several kilometers thick.
Mushrooms
Mycelium are able to communicate with trees, plants.
This communication involves the multidirectional flow of information (in the form of chemical compou ...